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Appleton, J. (1975) The Experience of Landscape, New York: John Wiley & Sons. (This book, by the originator of prospect–refuge theory, proposes a biological basis for our landscape preferences.) |
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Carlson, A. (1979) ‘Appreciation and the Natural Environment’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
37: 267–275. (The first in a series of papers defending the theory that aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment must be based on scientific knowledge.) |
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Hunt, J.D. (2000) Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Situates gardening within the larger enterprise of landscape architecture and investigates the capacity of gardens to represent other natures. Hunt draws on his vast knowledge of garden history to buttress his argument.) |
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Hunt, J. and Willis, P. (1975) The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620–1820, London: Paul Elek. (A splendid anthology of primary sources together with a very useful introductory essay.) |
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Jellicoe, G. and Jellicoe, S., Goode, P. and Lancaster, M. (1986) The Oxford Companion to Gardens, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (A very handy reference book with entries written by the acknowledged experts in each area of garden history.) |
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Miller, M. (1993) The Garden as an Art, Albany: State University of New York Press. (The first book on gardens by a contemporary philosopher; required reading which sets the stage for much of the ensuing discussion.) |
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Moore, C., Mitchell, W. and Turnbull, W. (1998) The Poetics of Gardens, Cambridge: MIT Press. (A unique discussion of the elements of gardens and of place, followed by an examination of great gardens from many times and places. The authors are architects and their accounts of particular gardens are enhanced by distinctive axonometric drawings.) |
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Paulson, R. (1973) ‘The Eighteenth-Century Poetic Garden’, The Listener
90: 878–880. (A brief article discussing English gardens at Castle Howard and at Stowe.) |
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Ross, S. (1998) What Gardens Mean, Chicago: Chicago University Press. (Discusses garden in relation to the sister arts of painting and poetry and to present-day environmental art.) |
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Thacker, Christopher (1979) The History of Gardens, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. (A concise and readable history that gives a sense of the garden traditions of various cultures.) |
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Wollheim, R. (1987) Painting as an Art, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (A lavishly produced book, based on the 1984 Mellon Lectures, which defends a distinctive view of pictorial representation.) |